Team Development

Are Your Teams Working?

Do you have really smart, talented people on your teams, but it seems like they aren’t as committed or enthusiastic as you would like them to be? Do you think that conflicting personalities may be getting in the way of forward movement? Are you at a loss as to how to turn that around?

Maybe your team is working, but you would like to be able to maximize strengths, minimize blind spots, or work better cross-functionally to achieve goals. Perhaps you have a great team that you would like to take to the next level of high performance.

Most teams have some amount of dysfunction. But even high functioning teams, where people are working well together, benefit when team members get to know and understand each other at a deeper level. This is because there is an “I in Team”. Teams are made up of individuals who have different perspectives, opinions, ideas, communication and decision making styles, leadership and work styles, ways of expressing emotions, strengths and blind spots, etc. Different perspectives can lead to misunderstanding, poor communication, lack of trust and a slowdown in work place productivity, all of which impact the bottom line.

Engaging in Team Development

This is where we come in; we facilitate a process of Team Development to help your teams work more collaboratively to reach their goals. And we have the tools to make that happen.

First, we help team members understand theirs and others’ perspectives to aid in building real and authentic trust. Then, we help you put this understanding into action to change the nature of how to get work done by working with, rather than against, these differences.

Through our team development processes, we can help you identify and resolve the root causes of mediocre or sub-par teamwork, and propel the best of teams to achieve more.

We know that all teams have different dynamics and issues – so we match the process with the issues. And we partner with you to achieve results. True collaborative teamwork takes sustained effort on the part of all team members. The benefits are worth the effort it takes to get there.

The Benefits of Developing Your Team

No matter where you team is now, you will see the benefits of Team Development by partnering with us to take your team to the next level of performance. Working together with you and your team, we can guide you to transform your team culture to be one of highly fluid interpersonal dynamics- which leads to happier team members. Armed with our time tested and researched tools, methodologies and insights, your team members will be empowered with the right tools to start ‘rowing in the same direction’ to meet goals and with more satisfaction.

Engaging in Team Development will help your teams:

Understand the importance of team dynamics and working better together

Develop self-awareness to achieve mutual understanding

Learn to communicate more effectively with one another

Create an atmosphere of trust and respect for differences

Gain clarity around team roles and responsibilities

Appreciate team members’ styles and flex to meet each others needs

Build a foundation to foster peer-to-peer accountability

Unwind historical and cross-functional team conflict

Identify and address team strengths and blind spots

Design and facilitate more effective meetings

Manage projects more effectively

Our Team Development Tools

Patrick Lencioni’s Five Dysfunctions of a Team Model and Team Assessment

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“Whatever the circumstances of your life the understanding of type can make your perceptions clearer, your judgments sounder and your life closer to your heart’s desire.”

— Isabel Briggs Myers, Gifts Differing

“Jung’s theory of psychological types is about patterns of conscious mental activity; at the most basic level, it is about perception and judgment.”

— Gordon Lawrence, People Types & Tiger Stripes

“If the person with whom you want to communicate has preferences different from yours, that person may stay engaged for a while, [but] over time the person may… feel drained of energy and lose interest…”

— Carolyn Zeisset, The Art of Dialog

“Each of the 16 Types is a dynamic system between the flow of psychic energy from mental process to mental process and from our conscious to our unconscious mind. In essence, Type is personality in motion; …moving in and out of the mental processes that are required and appropriate for the situation.”

— Katharine Myers and Linda Kirby, Introduction to Type Dynamics and Development

“…the dynamic nature of the human personality and the developmental model underlying Psychological Type are the elements that keep types from being static boxes into which individuals are fitted.”

— Katharine Myers and Linda Kirby, Introduction to Type Dynamics and Development

“Type is personality in motion… using what is needed and appropriate for the situation.”

— Katharine Downing Myers

“The dynamic character of type theory is commonly overlooked by people new to typology and the MBTI personality inventory. This leads to an often simplistic, categorical approach to the sixteen types.”

— Naomi Quenk , Was That Really Me?

“Jung’s model is concerned with the movement of psychic energy and the way in which one habitually or preferentially orients oneself to the world.”

— Daryl Sharp, Personality Types

“The amount and direction of the flow of psychological energy lies at the heart of the typological understanding of personality.”

— Naomi Quenk, In the Grip

“Together, perception and Judgment which make up a large portion of people’s total mental activity, govern much of their outer behavior, because perception – by definition – determines what people see in a situation, and their judgment determines what they decide to do about it. Thus, it is reasonable that basic differences in perception and judgment should result in corresponding differences in behavior.”

— Isabel Myers, Gifts Differing

“Together, the functions and orientations influence how a person perceives a situation and decides on a course of action. All of these choices are like forks in the road of human development, offering different paths that lead toward different kinds of excellence.”

— The MBTI Manual, 3rd Edition

“Perception and judgment are basic in the human condition. Our troubles come from faulty perceptions and poor judgments, and our progress comes from clear perceptions and sound judgments.”

— Gordon Lawrence, People Types & Tiger Stripes

“Personality type is a system with constant energy flow and constant interaction between the mental functions. It is not stagnant or rigid. It moves; it is dynamic.”

— Hartzler, McAlpine and Haas, Introduction to Type and the 8 Jungian Functions

“In ignoring the dynamic interactions critical to the Jung-Myers theory, both laypeople and professionals miss out on the theory’s greatest contribution to the explanation of healthy personality.”

— Naomi Quenk , Was That Really Me?

“The dynamic character of each personality type depends on how energy is typically used by a person of that type.”

— Naomi Quenk, In the Grip

“Leadership is a psychological process – and to get to the heart of leadership, we must understand the habits of mind that make up our interpretation of our day-to-day experiences and influence our choices.”

— Roger Pearman, HardWired Leadership

“We naturally tend to understand everything in terms of our own type.”